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- Submitted-by: brnstnd@KRAMDEN.ACF.NYU.EDU (Dan Bernstein)
-
- In article <1991Aug31.202615.11996@uunet.uu.net> Chuck Karish writes:
- > >Aside from that, we can make the GNU system do what users prefer even
- > >if that disagrees with POSIX. We don't have to follow the standard.
- > Your system doesn't ever have to be any more than a hobbyist's
- > toy, either. The more it diverges from industry standards the
- > more differences users will have to allow for when moving from
- > gnu to a commercial system.
-
- I find this incredibly funny. Chuck implies that a 1024-byte block size
- for df output ``diverges from industry standards,'' when I can type
- ``df'' on practically any BSD machine, including a Sun, and get output
- listed in kbytes. Literally millions of users work on machines which
- have this behavior. That's an industry standard (albeit not the only
- standard) by any reasonable definition.
-
- POSIX committee members seem to think that they are exempt from the
- moral requirements of (1) implementing their inventions before requiring
- others to do the same; (2) letting the market decide what it wants
- before shoving premature ``standards'' down everyone's throat. Don't
- bother arguing with (1) unless you can show me someone who actually used
- a complete POSIX system before POSIX.1 was standardized. Don't bother
- arguing with (2) unless you can explain how a behavior preferred by 20
- users out of 750 is what the market wants.
-
- ---Dan
-
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- Volume-Number: Volume 24, Number 90
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